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Canada’s pipeline map is beginning to look familiar again, with proposals reaching west, east and south. Their names may be different, but each of them echoes a project once promoted and later abandoned.
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More than a decade ago, the oilpatch was booming with new oilsands facilities under construction — and proposed pipelines that would have moved heavy crude in nearly every direction.
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Find out where every line would run, what was left behind and which hurdles could stop them again.
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